YouTube is KILLING this channel - Shadiversity is dying
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I can tell you, with complete sincerity, that this video is the first I've seen on my UA-cam feed in at least 3 months. I love watching this channel as often as I can, and the fact this video has only popped up now is proof that UA-cam needs to fix their crap.
Same here. Unless I'm directly looking at my subscription feed, I almost never see anyone I'm subscribed to. Even for channels I have notifications on for. I only see videos that are under 10 minutes in length, which are normally skits or clickbait. I don't like them, so I don't sub to them, but they're still all I see on my home page.
@@chaosstripe9446 Home page is recommended based off of your watch history. Always use the Subscriptions tab to see what your favorite content creators are up to.
I get it's frustrating but user laziness is also to blame.
@@chaosstripe9446 It's bullshit; UA-cam was THE platform for making videos, earning a living that doesn't cost you your health and/or mental health and in the past 5-ish years it went downhill, bad.
Although Rumble is shaping up to be the competitor of UA-cam, I don't know just how far along that has come. And even then, will it be able to sort itself out so people using the platform can keep a good wage?
Too many variables, too many idiots behind UA-cam's team only seeing the bottom line.
Why don't you look at your subscription feed?
Look if you have the restricted mode on!!
It blocks videos who are "problematic"!!
Something I've recently noticed, is how aggressively YT has started flooding recommendations with a single topic. If you watch a few videos about gaming on a few consecutive days, for example, your recommendations page will very quickly exclude anything else but gaming. So, unless you make a concerted effort to diversify the topics you watch, YT will simply wipe any recommendations of it until you actually search for it. The average person won't do this, or even know about it.
I've discovered that it's the opposite. I'm constantly being urged to watch videos I wouldn't normally be interested - my interests are history, historical clothing/needlecraft and some animal videos with a few news channels - and when I click all I get are crappy US shows pushing one particular narrative or another but ONLY of interest to bl00dy septics. I'm in Ireland, I DON'T give a toss for their political views or world propoganda.
Ditto. I was checking up on some Frontiersman style bushcraft kit for inspiration the other week and now I am inundated with haversacks. It's still interesting, but I haven't seen anything from most of my actual subbed channels for a week without actively searching for it.
I noticed this as well. It's actually a little annoying for me.
same i was going down the star wars rabbit hole hand my reccomended feed was FLOODED with generation tech videos (and geetsly's on occasion)
This is a major issue. I watched one video on How to grow a specific plant.
Then they jammed every video about that plant down my throat for weeks.
The worst part was when I tried searching for content nothing really appeared.....
I've come to realize that I watch UA-cam differently than most. I hardly ever look at the recommendations page. I always scroll through my subscriptions and click on each channel individually to see what videos they have. This leads me to never miss a new video from any of my subscriptions.
Same with me
Same I'm guessing alot of people don't check their sub page which seems odd.
This is what I do. I don't get why other people don't. What's the point of subscribing if you don't keep track of what your subscription channels are releasing?
Similarly, I turned off my UA-cam watch history (which literally kills the homepage as nothing is shown there except a message telling you to turn watch history back on). So now I've edited my "UA-cam" bookmark to take me to my subscriptions page, where I see every video from subscribers and choose which ones I'm interested in.
Same but sometimes I notice a channel disappear for awhile and find out I am not subbed to it anymore.
Who else is here because of Georg's video?
Yep! 😂
same
I suspect every single person who says "Shad's videos don't come up any more, not seen them in monrhs!" is a bit easily led.
IT ME! I used to watch this channel but the sexism got to me.
Hi!!
Man I don t know what you did to George Rockall-Schmidt but I would suggest apologizing before making another video. The eye of Sauron is upon you.
Yeah, his video was some epic trolling. I've been watching him since his "How Alien has changed" video.
His video was absolutely hilarious.
George's video cut deeper than any of Shad's swords ever could.
@@rubenskiii probably because all of Shad's swords are display swords bought from Comic Com. Fact remains, Shad's channel is dying, it's just that he whinges so much now.
His appreciation for his paid subs is rather disingenuous
The irony that UA-cam has pushed this video out
Concerning drama like this catches people's attention and then the videos get boosted far more than normal.
I admit that I stopped watching shadiversity regularly after I found knights watch and started watching that a lot more, ironically because I agree with most of your political views which I'm guessing is why youtube is not promoting you. I will start watching shadiversity more and I'm also considering buying shadow of the conqueror.
@@jt-zj9wcfirst time ever seeing this channel, what are his political views?
Edit: nevermind. 6 minutes in and he says he’s Christian conservative… lol I don’t think UA-cam fails to promote conservative nonsense. I see Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro crap all the time despite never clicking it
@Eric_Garrison Shapiro is Jewish.
@@shadiversity Exactly, so your next archery video should just be titled DESTROYS in archery contest!
If it bleeds, it dies.
Shad I hate to tell you this, but it’s not really a UA-cam conspiracy to destroy you. 1) You got political, which is almost never a good thing for a content creator regardless of what the expressed views actually are. It doesn’t matter that you are political on another channel, people will still associate you with that. 2) Obviously not as many people will be watching your videos as during the height of Covid, people had more time then and where looking for ways to spend it. 3) You are a channel for mostly teenagers as far as I can tell, there is not a significant adult population that has both the time and inclination to consistently watch videos on the topics that you enjoy. This is a big deal because kids now are increasingly moving towards short form content, so platforms like UA-cam are happy feeding it to them, which is probably why you had such quick growth on TikTok. 4) In my opinion your content has just got a little tired. (this point is purely personal preference)
I have nothing against you man, but this is the second video that I’ve seen like this from your channel, and it really hurts to watch. I can’t tell you where to go from here, but if you want this thing to keep going you need to think outside of the box, not just increase production value and blame UA-cam when that doesn’t work. The world is moving on, you can either get with the program, or get left behind. I wish the best for you and your family even though you probably are not gonna read this.
I feel much the same. I discovered the channel during Covid when I had more time at home to waste. I do enjoy swords, and the topics discussed here... but only to a point (no pun intended). There are only so many Sword videos an adult could watch before burnout or moving onto other things. The first handful I watched were fun, interesting and I learned a few things. But I don't need an in-depth breakdown on edged weapon combat for every century, covering every possible hypothetical scenario and every weapon. In a way, I feel like the topic is a little too niche to tent-pole continuous, reliable traffic. Unless you are into larping or collecting (a relatively small group compared to UA-cam users as a whole).
No shade here... I do realize this is just my 2¢, but are 1.68m people watching sword videos every day? week? month? It just seems unrealistic given the topic.
Please dont stop posting
@@lowca3717this is exactly the same as me - I like the content but rarely, if ever, have I watched a 40 minute video about swords or castles
I am shocked how small of a percentage of UA-cam actually uses the subscription tab
It is usually because you don't have to, the new videos show up on the notifications, but something is going down on UA-cam making hat not happen anymore for a lot of channels.
Oh is this the issue? I've always been confused by these kinds of things because I've seen tons of his videos in my subscriptions tab! I only use notifications for comment replies.
@@xanthiusdrake2775 I don't see where this idea comes up that you don't have to. The Home page recommends things inside and outside your sub list. If you had 0 subscriptions at all, the Home Page still recommends based off your history. If you want to actually view just your subscriptions they provide a flawless page that does that.
This is what I keep saying.. dont expect every video to just be recommended to you on the front page. That exists to show you new content that is similar what youve been watching semi recently. The subscriptions page is where all the videos show up from channels you are subscribed to.. if you dont check your subscriptions...of course you are missing tons of content..
@@xanthiusdrake2775 I've been unsubscribed from certain channels that I was previously subscribed to. It's a wonderful system that likes to fail spectacularly.
Shorts are so annoying, I keep turning it off, 30 days later, it comes back, YT - I DO NOT WANT TO WATCH SHORTS ON UA-cam
Wait, you can turn them off? How? Teach me of the ways....
Sorry to tell you but it's the future of content. Your witnessing a change in media format based on a generational gap.
@@goobermcboogerballs1420 Not to mention, they're trying to give Tik Tok a run for their money.
most browsers have community made plugins that remove them permanently, i use one on firefox.
word, brother, shorts are the worst.
You're making the incorrect assumption that people unsub if they don't like the content. I'm subbed from a long time ago, but I don't have any interest in the content because I'm really tired of your shilling for AI "art", so I basically never watch the new videos. I'm sure many, many people feel the same way.
I think having other people talking and heading up the videos other than Shad has definitely had an effect on how people view the channel. It's not one passionate nerd with a unique voice talking about HEMA, history, and fantasy medieval ideas, it seems more like a corporate entity, and that turns me and others off, I wish you well, and I used to love the channel, but the content is not what many, including myself, are looking for anymore. I also hate how many of Shad's videos are about YT drama, and arguing against other UA-camrs. I honestly miss the old Shad, as cliched and mean as that sounds, but I wish the channel well, even if I'm not interested in the new direction it is going in.
This! I subbed for his old Fantasy Re-Armed series, it even sparked my own worldbuilding project!
I truly think that UA-cam has changed the recommendation system because for the first time I had to choose "don't recommend this channel " on most of the videos in my recommendation just to get something close to my interest
THIS. I get sick of youtube being stuck in a rut, and shoving garbage at me so I liberally use the "don't reccomend" option. I can really tell the difference after I tell youtube not to recommend a dozen or more garbage channels because youtube will start recommending some things I like.
I’m quick to click that
Yes, recently they allowed creators to pay them in order to get extra promotion for their channel. So that is where these recommendations are coming from.
I constantly clean the 'recommendations' on the right with that. Always some "right to travel" or JRE-clip channel spamming nonsense. I would really love if there was some "blacklist videos with these keywords"-option.
Gotta love all the crypto schemes being suggested (!)
One thing I've noticed, is that quite a few of my subscriptions seem to have just disappeared for no reason.
UA-cam is unsubbing people from channels.
They claim a "bug" but i'm fairly certain its simply part of their watch-time maximisation algorithm.
For me it happens on reverse. I get automatically subscribed on some channels.
@@silviuvisan505 I get a bit of both. Recently it's being autosubbed as you say.
they are bullying people. we are in thier matrix. in their gulag.
You haven't touched Indian or Chinese weapons. They are the majority that want to see their weapons.
Yes, this is the first video I've seen recommended, although I have been subscribed since almost the birth of the channel. This winter I had to manually search this channel because I was wondering how you are doing, and I also had the thought that you may have stopped posting. Much love!❤
“Idc if I have 100 notifications, let me know when someone I follow uploads”
UA-cam: No
Subscription page does this. Not the new recommendation (home) page. That will recommend things on and off your list.
@@Pangora2i almost exclusively sit on my subscription page. I don't know why people never seem to understand they can check that. Like why bother subscribing if you wont check it?
@@radoslavakov4693i do so as well but I feel that even the sub feed hides some videos. Or delays showing them.
Do stuff add to UA-cam other than AD revenue such as merch and affiliate links etc.... Add those even to the old videos and the other platform. Start building your drop shipping business (it will take sometime , step by step, on the side. Get in touch with someone that is established in that field. Such as FBA. Do fulfilment type.). Make other stream other than AD revenue using social media as a marketing platform for yourself. In fact use AD revenue at some point as a tool for making free ads. Higher editors and lower the quality to do more videos. Have one good video a week. Post everyday. Do streaming on multiple platforms at sametime (UA-cam, Twitch and Kick) 2 times a week. Higher someone and use AI to do shorts and 5 mints or so videos from the 2 streams. Allow people to copy paste sections of your stream and encourage them to do so. Sell a course for something on your own website on cloud host using a website maker and make affiliate link for signup for it for the customers. Do some shorts on your other channels that is inflammatory and hookup Shadiversity link to it. Encourage viewers to search u and look into subscription area. Make a plugin that can be added to browsers and a phone app that users can use to add youtube channel links where AI/program will watch until new content recording they chose short or video or both is new posted then gives them a notification. The program keeps showing the notification for a month until the video is at history at their UA-cam account which has to be the same emile they used to make this app account and they can add other emails, that is on their phone.
almost like you need to click the fucking bell...
I guess the issue is that people don't check the subscriptions tab, they'd rather check the home tab, which shows you content more based on themes rather than specific channels
That seems to be one issue in that case. I was always wondering how many people missed uploads from subscribed channels, but once I read some comments here it became clear to me. The problem here is that it requires active "work" on your home tab until its recommendations are fine. Until it becomes kind of usable you'll have to click manually on a lot of videos to ensure that yt never recommends you that kind of stuff again, but I doubt that people who doesn't use their sub' box put that effort into it.
Still, that should've always been an issue but doesn't explain recent drops in numbers.
@@reptiloidmitglied2930that works for a time. but often is a continuing hassle. search and recommend algorithms are screwed a lot
I see his videos pop up on there, my home feed, but the content isn't really something I seek out anymore. I don't know if it's the cycle of everything moving to short form, because I still have specific channels I do watch long form on. This just isn't content I actively seek out anymore. I'll be honest, when he started bringing new people onto the channel years ago is kind of when I stopped watching, I liked when it was just him.
same, half the time im like "oh armor again? nah"
i only subbed for his fightscene autopsy stuff and nun-chuck drama. Prefer his physical stuff over his rants, yet its promotted on the wall, in my bell AND on my subs. @@TheXLAXLimpLungs
Yeah for some reason some myth started spreading that you should use the recommended feed to watch videos from the same channel over and over again, but that has NEVER been the purpose of that feed. If you want to keep seeing the new videos of a channel(s), the mechanism for doing that has ALWAYS been to subscribe, and use the subscriptions feed to see all new uploads from all the channels you subscribe to. It has been that way for well over a decade now.
Subscribing to a channel and relying on the recommended feed is like buying CD's and then hoping the radio will play the music you bought.
Have you considered that your recent controversies impacted how people (don't) approach your content?
What controversies?
yep, his views on AI art and the fact he's an egotistical man who thinks he's a better artist than his brother is what pushed me to unsubscribe. Also, he's annoying af.
What controversy? I haven’t been keeping up with this channel over the last couple years
@@Gabeconstantinemusic The AI art and the cheating
@@jameswafer7732 I think he's tried to delve into the culture wars.
This is what happens when you take the wrong side in the nunchaku debate.
This is the 3rd or 4th content creator that I've been subbed to, who has said that their channel is dying. I think you're right Shad, YT shorts has had a devastating impact on a lot of creators, along with the algorithm changing and YT pushing their own agenda. It makes me so sad for people like you, who makes a living off of youtube, now facing real world problems because of it. I hope you and your wife can successfully pivot and find a way to sustain your selves
I remember we were all encouraging Shad to just do the shorts so that they could get on the good side of the UA-cam algorithm. However, I now have to wonder if shorts have brought in the wrong kind of audience. Most of Shad's content is teaching videos, something to focus on and learn from for 20+ minutes. They are not short term, short attention span, instant dopamine release videos.
What I don't understand is how many people rely on UA-cam to recommend content to them and don't actively seek out content. I create my own feed I don't let UA-cam do it for me. Since the very first day I signed up, I only ever visit my subscriptions page, I never ever go to the homepage. I will occasionally try new content recommended in the side bar after watching a subscribed video but that is about it. I am not interested in popular trash I only want to be shown new content from channels I know and like. I guess that makes me weird or in the minority but I don't miss anything that gets uploaded. I certainly don't choose to watch everything I subscribe to but at least I know it exists.
I also just manually check channels occasionally for new stuff.
I would love to use the search function but it’s been changed into an alternate recommendation page >:( I miss old UA-cam, back when the search worked.
Feed is pretty shitty, you can sometimes find hidden gems and good channels but 99% of the time is shit, it's kinda like the new doom scrolling and pretty boring thing
Exactly, who are these toddlers who only watch on the home page?! If you want to see someone's videos, freaking subscribe and use your subscription feed like an adult. I've never missed a single shad video ever, why would I ever rely on the algorithm? The whole point of the Home page is to show you NEW content from channels you haven't subscribed to, so you get sucked into new channels and stay on the platform. If you want to see someone's videos, use the subscriptions tab
@@DamTheAbsolute I use both 🤨
This is the first video I've seen from you in almost two years. I'm subscribed with the bell icon on. UA-cam never has anything for me to watch, I usually have to hit refresh two to three dozen times to find nothing and I just end up searching the creators by name. This is a tragedy.
the first thing youtube show me when i open the app is shorts. i watch shorts but only on my phone and this happens on pc, tv too. Who watches shorts on tv? when i want to watch a video longer than 5 min i can not find anything new. even my subs feed is filled with shorts. I started to see videos i already watch recommended. it is frustrating.
You and I use very different definitions of the word 'tragedy'.
@@Erlaxis The definition of the word Tragedy I use is a noun. This is its definition.
1. A great loss of someone, or something that could have potentially been made better or made into something greater than what it had been.
2. A lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster.
3. A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically involving a great person destined to experience downfall or utter destruction, as though a character flaw or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or an unyielding society.
4. The branch of drama that is concerned with this form of composition.
5. The art and theory of writing and producing tragedies.
6. Any literary composition, as a novel, dealing with a somber theme carried to a tragic or disastrous conclusion.
7. The tragic or mournful or calamitous element of drama, of literature generally, or of life.
Ironically this is the first of your videos which has been suggested to me in the last few months- I love your content and had thought you weren't posting.
When I saw the shorts-feature my first thought was: "How can creators monetize that?" and the second one "Doesn't that kill the KPI 'watchtime' which is known to largely determine how much people get payed?" Well, apparently, those questions are valid.
Yeah yt shorts are trash and I do t watch any of them. They're trying to be tiktok. Which is the demise of the youth of the world.
@@mantiscoregaming6699nah... only the demise of the western youth. Word around is, that in China, TikTok promotes more educational and wholesome videos/shorts than the drivel they let pump out in the west. It might be a conspiracy though. 😁
@@mantiscoregaming6699 What people now call "Shorts" was always here. I remember numerous great super-short videos in early UA-cam and there still are numerous amazing short-length videos. The length of a video is not the problem.
What changed is how they are treated: rather than just another video that is simply short in length, they are considered a different media category altogether. THAT is them trying to build in TikTok. And that is the real problem: by pushing the "popcorn" videos rather than a proper mix of long and short and mid-lengths, that breaks the balance.
Irony: TikTok adding longer video options, to become more like UA-cam.
I puked on my own dick
Friendly reminder that if you want to watch the videos of channels you're subscribed to, you _MUST_ check the subscriptions tab. Notifications are hit or miss at best. The recommended tab or home tab are the videos _UA-cam_ wants you to watch. Your _subscriptions tab_ is the videos you actually subscribed to.
^This. I accidentally turned off the recommendations on my homepage, (and have since chosen not to turn it back on) and this is how I've been operating for the last couple of years. I have never missed a video from a creator I like. There have been some I have chosen not to watch---but none that I've missed.
I think this is genuinely the first shadiversity video Ive had in my feed in over 5 months. And im on youtube literally every other day. I love your content too.
I find it so strange that old UA-cam videos get fewer views compared to when they were new. I can't think why. 🤔
Meaning this as fully constructive, personally I don't enjoy the content as much as I did - the production values are better for sure, I just don't like the new formats. I think the reason why the Veritasium video did well is that it was a bit of a throwback, good information about history - it would be weapons, armour, castles, battles, materials, anything really, I personally find it more engaging than testing stuff. It might just be me though so I thought I'd drop my two cents and let you gauge.
I also think it'd be cool to get some of the older-style content back again. I came in for the information on gambesons and maille and the Shabbard, and while I like the new content (and think Nate and Tyranth are awesome), I do miss some of the older stuff.
As a writer, learning that gambeson was a thing was *super* helpful for me, and ever since I watched that video, all my lightly-armored fighting characters have used that instead of the leather vests I used to put them in. The old castle design videos always inspired me to want to learn 3D modeling or how to build miniatures, because I wanted to build a super effective castle, too.
The new stuff is cool, and I don't think you should get rid of it by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't feel like I'm learning as much from this channel as I used to, and I came here primarily to learn so I can write more accurate story-details.
(The Medieval bathing video you did a while back was *awesome*, by the way. I may have stolen a few concepts from it for a story shortly after...)
If you look at the most recent videos, the more historical ones about castles or armor itself have more views. I enjoined the old days the new days are good, but their more in functional Fandom and us history nerds like our history and not much the Fandom.
@@robsright4256There doesn’t seem to be any kind of hard rule going on, lots of views on videos that talk about pop culture or that are about testing (fantasy or real) weapons, beefs with other creators, etc.
@nathanjora7627 Yeah, it's not a hard rule. But it is also my viewing that leans that way. So, it's probably just more a personal trend than an overall one, and what I saw was just probably confirmation bias 🤣
@@robsright4256 Possibly yeah ^^
It seems like a lot of people here have the restricted mode option turned on. This option is in the general settings.
This option is so unknown that even most employees at YT don’t know about this!
This option filters out video on unknown criteria, hiding up to 60% of a channels videos!
*TURNING THIS SETTING OFF WILL MOST LIKELY SHOW ALL THE VIDEOS YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO SEE BEFORE!*
please like this comment so as many people as possible can see this!
How does a user do this???
@@shutterchick79 click on the settings icon, select the „general“ tab, and check if the button for the restricted mode is off. If not, turn it off.
@@shutterchick79 Google it :)
@@shutterchick79
Depends, are you on the app?
If so. Go to the home page on the app and look to the top right for the gear symbol for settings. Click that then click general.
Then you need to scroll all the way down till you see the restricted mode option.
I was looking up Japanese porn stars with huge honkers yesterday. Seems like a good test.
I learned a valuable lesson about this when I was very young. I took lessons and practically lived at a horse ranch from around 11 to about 16. Every day, all day, I was at that barn, being a 'barn rat' and loving every moment. I was teaching lessons, working to help, and enjoying my favourite horse (who I eventually got for Christmas one year.) When I started there, business was flourishing. At least, as much a small lesson barn could in that area.
The owner had several (she had almost two dozen at one point) horses of her own and for her family, the boarding stalls were at 100% capacity, and lessons/pony camps were booming. Over time, as the second to last 'generation' of barn kids lost interest, the final generation was significantly smaller. While lessons slowed, capacity dropped to around half of what it once was, and boarders started leaving so their kids would have more friends to ride with; hay prices went up, utilities went up, and she had her own financial commitments like feeding her family, which also went up in price.
The owner started thinning down her herd. The trainer started losing lessons. The staff decreased. Some people were late on board, or stopped paying their board entirely and abandoned old horses, as sh*tty people do from time to time. The owner was an amazing and caring woman and fed them out of her own pocket.
That care came to be her demise. She eventually got to the point where she was feeding a large portion of all horses on the property out of her own pocket. Be it entire meals, or just supplementing the hard keepers, she was pouring her wages from her day job into the barn; and later her savings. Because this woman wanted to hold onto the dream she had worked so hard for, and enjoyed so much, she literally went bankrupt.
She closed down the barn and gave those who were left 30 days to find arrangements for another barn, took the few that belonged to her young kids who she couldn't bear to part with, and moved. She invited most along to the other facility, but we all knew it would never be the same and, as a result, many chose alternatives that better suited their own pocketbooks.
Shad, my point is this: I understand your willingness and desire to keep 'letting late payments slide and feeding the abandoned horses' - aka - putting out content for the love of doing it and not wanting to let our smaller community down. But for the love of all things medieval, please don't put yourself in a hole you can't climb out of. Make the changes needed to sustain yourself and your family responsibilities. Do the hard thing by letting Shadiversity as it is now, end before it dies and you can't afford bring it around again as Shadiversity 2.0.
Keep your finances in check and don't let yourself lose your dream AND your own stability. The worst thing you could do is try to keep this version afloat until you literally can't and then not be able to make even a moderated version down the line. That, my friend, is a lose-lose situation. Please learn from the mistakes that cost the barn owner years of her happiness and replaced it with stress.
Best of luck.
- Jackson
Love all your content shad. I am sorry to hear this but it's crazy that this is the first video I've been recommended of yours for a long time. I have been a long time subscriber. Hope everything works out.
Here's the solution everyone: Your bookmark for youtube? Don't set it to the home page. Set it to your subscriptions page.
fix for one channel. nice
@@mugnuz I have many channels and i just scroll looking at thumbnails looking for new stuff. It takes a couple of minutes and i miss some vids but it still works. I see most vids from shad (just that i don't have the time to watch them all.)
@@mugnuz I think he means the page that shows all subscriptions, not shadiversities channel in particular lol.
ua-cam.com/users/feedsubscriptions
I'll do this immediately. Your comment should be pinned.
👍
F, idk why UA-cam doesn’t accurately promote content to people who want it
Because of ideology, Shadiversity is viewed as an enemy.
They’re possessed by radical ideas and think they’re saving the world
After all its a Chanel over weapons.
@@Miranox2 Yeah basically. Our owners don't want us seeing what's organically popular, because they can't control that. They want to filter, blacklist, shadow ban, limit visibility, artificially boost things that they want us consuming, and they don't care about making money. They'll lose money if that have to, it's not about making money. It's about influencing culture and manipulating society and the collective consciousness of humanity.
Anyone that isn't pushing exactly what UA-cam wants is their enemy, more specifically. So anyone who is posting content that is not both okay for young kids, ages 5+, and under 10 minutes in length.
Basically they're trying to pick a fight with Tiktok, even if it harms tons of channels.
Content creators didn't complain enough when UA-cam stopped e-mail notifications for subscribers. That was the best way for me to keep track of what was new and what I've watched. The little notification scroll list has been absolutely terrible for years, and it's the only way to see what's new from subscribers that we haven't watched now. I'm forced to try to go through that little scroll list once a day. It's horrible when I have to go away for a few days and try to catch up.
Instead go to your Subscriptions page and just go down the channel list, look at recent uploads of all the channels and see what you actually missed
I hope you can pull through this. I like your content. I hope your supporters rally to your aid.
I signed on as a new member as a result of this video and I hope many others do as well or support you in the other ways you mentioned.
I wish UA-cam would shut down shorts. I think they are killing everything that was good, unique, and monetizable about the planform.
They trying to turn it into Tik Tok.
ive been using an api to not show them to me at all, it was so annoying, like i saw a video with a good thumb and interesting title, only to find out its not even a minute long, so i just got rid of them all
Been considering unsubscribing from YT on and off for these sort of reasons.
Couldn’t agree more. Unfortunately the current generation has the attention span of a fly on meth.
absolutely. Shorts are TRASH. NOT the reason why I use youtube and why I DO NOT use tik tok.
Ironically a video like this gets pushed right to the front page.
Not only that, UA-cam keeps pushing notifications for creators that I DON'T follow. It's frustrating for us, too.
Turn off notifications and use the subscription tab when looking for stuff to watch.
Makes using youtube a whole hell of a lot easier.
It's not ironic, it's by design.yt knows these topics attract views so it actively promotes them (you know, the videos where people say they are leaving yt etc). If you notice, sometimes you only hear about content creators they suppress when they do a goodbye video. That way yt can milk them on the way out... yt as a company is particularly disgusting too because it preys not only on the community but on the creators as well, I bet you this video will do really well (encouraging shad) and the next one will not even appear on my feed (demoralizing shad even more).
This one is getting actual engagement, unlike his other videos. People just seem bored of his videos and the algorithm responds accordingly.
@@SpottopsNL you say that but the last recommended video was from 1 year ago. When I look for the channel I am served with old videos that I already watched, leading me to believe he has not posted in a while, only when I open the video tab do I get the recent ones
@maniga6763 This is an issue with a lot of old channels (no matter the content or political slant). The algorithm favors engagement. Well, among other things, of course, I'm not going to claim it is all perfectly clear. But engagement is a big factor, which is why so many creators say "like and subscribe and be sure to let me know what you think in the comments."
This means that if you have a large number of subs, but you get very few new subs (relatively), it's logical that a lot of your current subs are from "dead" accounts or subs from people who lost interest in your content for whatever reason. The algorithm serves the new videos to a test audience and sees a (relatively) low click rate, so it will be less likely to recommend it to others. Why would it recommend his video when it could serve a video that is more likely to get clicks instead? This video works because of the spicy title, which made it more likely that the initial test audience clicks on it. It's less of a conspiracy and more the way youtube recommendations work, I think.
Also yeah, youtube's search engine has been bad for a while now. You get a few relevant videos and then it devolves into popular but far less relevant results.
i haven't been recommended videos from this channel for months, maybe years, even after been subscribed for years. Every time i come here is because i go out of my way to click on the channel. This is insane. Happened with Skallagrim too.
Time to start getting a job!
I've been subscribed for years, I thought the channel had shut down. This is the first video that's been in my Subscriptions page for awhile
Were you still subbed? Many channels I noticed they unsub me. So when I see a creator from 5+ years ago I'm like "oh, they came back" wait... they never left?
I'm still subscribed and this is the first notification in a bit.
same i don't see the notifications anymore. This is the first ive seen in a bit
weird, i alwas get every notification
I see the videos constantly in the feed, I am just not clicking on it.
Really surpsising how people think this is a conspiracy. People are simply getting bored by the content.
I think while your content has been "quality" it isn't the same aa the content you used to make - castle building, machicolations, fun videos. Your recent content has been... well basically history channel-tier
true i stopped watching because of this, i came for the fun stuff if i want history style i go to other creators
Agreed, the "let us bash some armor with some weapons" style videos are maybe third tier quality compared to other channels i watch.
While there is some of that, this seems larger than that?
This doesn’t explain why his old content isn’t getting new views either though.
I started seeing your videos being listed in my feed only for the past 2 days, with the Caernarfon Castle tour and also the dispelling myths listicle. I also only realised today that I was no longer subscribed, no idea how long it's been since I was seeing your content regularly but it's well over a year since aside from occasional videos with your friends included I haven't seen any that are hosted by others.
This is the first Shadiversity video I have seen in a week. But I am subscribed to a LOT of channels, including several (if not all) of your channels. As much as I watch, I am not sure I can keep up with all the subscribed content.
One problem with UA-cam and channels, is that they continuously spam a single video from two years ago, that you've already watched. It's hard to not just start ignoring that channel.
I've seen this behaviour from youtube's autoplay feature but never followed channels that reupload old videos like that.
I had a single science video that would play after EVERY single video. EVERY day. Eventually I had to mark that video as not interested on 3 occasions.
Yeah the amount of time it keeps showing me 7 year old videos I've already watched is ridiculous.
Even after marking it as Not Interested because I've already seen it.
If these companies are going to track everything I do, I wish they'd at least get their act together and use it properly.
Yep, happens all the time
@@shaggybaggums I agree. If you have saved any information about me, let it be which videos I've watched so I don't get them recommended again.
@@linusgustafsson2629 But there are lots and lots of videos that millions of people like to watch again and again!
Oh wait, that are MUSIC VIDEOS. But there's obviously no way for YT to discern these from other content, oc. ... .
I did kind of stop watching this channel as there seemed to be a bit too much drag in the videos. Bickering and talking over each other. Testing "stuff" also seemed to be more prioritizing you guys having fun, which I understand, but it didn't feel like a genuine testing effort to me. Probably I'm the minority and that is not the reason for the steep decline in all other stats.
No, I think there's more of us than he realises, we just feel mean saying it so he's lacking our feedback.
@@joletapetty6706 I've commented this several times already, but to let you know I'm here---I miss the old-style, more educational content. I came here to learn stuff about the Medieval time period, ways of life, and weapons and armor, but now that it's all "test this weapon from X fantasy thing" I've grown less interested. I'm an author, so I do like to see what crazy ideas are already out there and find out whether or not they'd work in real life, but I'm primarily here to learn. (Though I did love the videos about fire arrows, flaming swords, and arrows with strings attached to them---probably because those are more widespread and overused fantasy tropes.)
The issue is I've had multiple videos over 150k views during these three months, one over 300k, but clearly people are just not interested in my content? The issue is that even with these very successful videos, there has been no subscriber growth, meaning those successful videos were not shown to many new viewers and very recently even to my own subscribers. I address the quality of content issue extensively in the video. When viewer interest declines it usually happens gradually, not an instant drop all of a sudden in a given month, especially when the content being made is just as good as always.
If all your subscriber growth suddenly died in a day and then stayed that way for months regardless of having videos that got over 300k views during that time, I believe you would think something was sus
@@shadiversity 100% there must be some issue with the new algorithm update, but what is it I wonder. I know that for shorts it was updated to take into account if all who were notified engage with it, could be now similar with normal videos. One youtuber also said that if you don't watch atleast 10sec of the video after clicking on it also then gets downgraded even if video gets a lot of views. You can probably see best what new metrics could be considered problematic by UA-cam on this channel. Could try to promote the patreon on every video. I hope you pull trough.
Thanks UA-cam, for showing me this FIVE DAYS LATER
It seems that UA-cam is doing a terrible job at recommending videos lately, I haven’t had this channel recommended in a while
Truly one of the biggest problems of big internet is how different platforms try to step into each other's territory. UA-cam makes Shorts to compete with TikTok, Facebook altering it's algorithm and layout to compete with Twitter. Instead of being satisfied with their niches, they ruin the user experience trying to be everything at once.
If they all just did their own thing, they'd all succeed equally I bet since there'd be a Niche for everything/everyone. May sound weird but look at the military, every single thing or person has a specific use and purpose so that everything and everyone gets used to their maximum efficiency and...it works! Or actually even better, the computer industry, you have companies that manufacture pre built pc's, people that make the parts and people who build their own pc's, they all co-exist without infringing on each other and they all benefit from each other for it.
@@killerzer0x74This has been happening to creators for years. We've seen this with other creators. It's targeted.
It’s happening on shorts to brainiac
If you've ever seen those "20 tools in one" kind of things and how crap they are at doing any one of the 20 different things, It's about like that.
Why would Facebook need to compete with Twitter when the already own Instagram?
bro i have the bell on and this is the first time ive gotten a notification for this channel in over a year
Same. For me, it’s a trend for any subscription that is non-political.
Thru my experience if you have alot of notifications on. Then what you watch most and watch frequently will only be shown not older interacted channels even with notifications on. Thats the besk way i can describe it.
I never get any notification, I'm not sure what the bell even is for. I have to look at the "subscribed" tab to see what was posted by channels I subscribed to
UA-cam being UA-cam, as usual.
Same
I have been subscribed for two years and this is the first time in 6 months that I’ve seen your videos recommended
Dying...
This has a quarter million views
UA-cam has been broken for years, and their algorithm is fickle and stupid.
haven't been able to find anyting relevant on google for 5 years now
at least... not on the first 3 pages
@dutchdykefinger been using duck duck go since like 2017/18 since the results Google was giving me refused to be relevant.
'Fickle' has nothing to do with it. UA-cam is intentionally targeting channels for 'soft' demonetization. This is an ideological attack - it's censorship.
Their algorithm is working perfectly, and it is delivering the produce to the customers exactly as intended. The customers are advertisers, and the produce is the viewers.
@@TheReaverOfDarkness The purpose of an institution is the results it produces.
Shadowbanning is the worst, i hate that UA-cam tactic, specially when it does it to content creators that i cherish
or getting 1 day bans for comments that everyone finds normal except a few on the far left and a small hat tribe that we have kicked out of Europe hundreds of times for this same behaviour.
Shadowbanning is something everyone do, Twitter did it, Facebook did it, Amazon, Google does it. Some people just got the collective big corpa social media websites deleting them from excistance.
Its censorship pure and simple, Putting their hand on the scale.
Stop using their Orwellian terms.
He's not shadowbanned, otherwise I wouldn't have found this video.
@@PanoptesDreamsits just that less people are interested now. If you dont watch his content, you wont get his videos recommended. Simple
This is why I never depend on youtube for income.
I mean...the real reason is because you aren't successful enough on YT for it to be an option.
Hi. First video of you that I got recommend in months. Really hope you get through this and hope for more. Might have to manually search for you again
"It's only a dollar" No raindrop thinks it's responsible for the flood.
Patreon bans people for political bias. UA-cam screws people by algorithm.
I cannot see a way to subscribe for a dollar. Maybe some sort of direct donation system would be advisable.
I'd be that raindrop. I think every raindrop wants to be that one. Why not? It'd be fun to KNOW you're the guy that caused the dam to burst and wash away entire towns and fields. What can humans do? Blame the rain?
@@edmondgreen7970 The only reason we cannot blame the rain is because the rain can't be credited for the catastrophe. It's a tool, not something that acts.
If the raindrops began to think, we could blame the rain.
1 million $1 subscriptions is $1,000,000
@TheDude-pm2gn Which one?
Shorts are basically a trap. It brings in a bunch of the Tiktok addicts who don't really watch full videos, and since they don't view the ad-monetized content it flags your channel to the algorithm as being "Bot-bought" and it kills your recommendations. This has happened with a lot of channels who've been encouraged to bump up YT's shorts, only to have their channels get algorithmically ruined.
UA-cam punishes people for doing what UA-cam demands they do. The further reliance of Alphabet on AI-assisted algorithmic development is making things even worse, something they've even had to come out and admit themselves.
YT's obvious over-reliance on ML for decision making is breaking things across the board.
Love your pfp.
@@huwhitecavebeast1972 That's a pretty disturbing thing to say.
Everything I’ve read is to avoid shorts like the plague.
@@huwhitecavebeast1972 Blessed be, fren. I love your screenname.
weird that shad hasnt locked the chats yet because the main reason is that nhe scared away his main audience and is now complaining that his main audience left.
Yeah, he's gone full blown incel now.
It only makes sense that he blames it on everything but his own actions.
Interesting to say that on a video that disproves this totally lol
@@phoebeblaze3668where is that happening?
You know it's bad when I've been recommended videos discussing this channel, but never this channel.
Not dying.. being murdered by YT.
We’re here for ya Shad. Please don’t give up.
I suspect they are targeting him deliberately.
I don't think its really true, most of his content is just far to long, he must see that almost no one is really going to finish a whole 40m video of his. This whole video he just made could have been 5-6m long. It would have been much better content if it had been.
@@alistairbolden6340 I hate short content. Short means bad and not worth watching. Detail requires time. Ticktock style videos are evil and should be eliminated because they are killing intelligence.
@@nextcaesargaming5469 very doubtful that they are targeting him. He isn't large enough to really cause that sort of hate from YT corporate.
@@nunyabidness3429 Channels with a smaller subscriber count have gotten targeted, so it's not too far fetched from my perspective.
the fact that youtube doesnt even recommend a shadiveristy video while i am actively watching one is just absurd. If i am looking at my recommended rn it is the 16th video. But if i change to the from shadiversity tab i actually get a large variety of vids from this channel. I am confused why the first recommended vids arent from the current channel... I love this channel, i even revisited a couple of older ones but youtube still doesnt seem to recommend vids i havent seen from you even tho i am clearly interested. i sincerely hope you can continue cause this channel is better then its ever been
The recommended sections and the homepage aren't meant to do that anymore. It's all about promoting channels you aren't subscribed to. Clearly someone at YT deems it more important to have people mindlessly subscribe to new channels over and over, than it is to make sure that channels have the reach they need to stay connected with their subscribers.
Interesting, I did not notice this until I read your comment. I had to scroll down more than 20 Videos before the first one popped up. Thats new, I remember that I always watched a bunch of videos because the first videos were always from Shads Channel when I visited/watched a video.
Holy crap, I had not even checked my current recommendations. Yeah, I don't have any Shad videos in mine, either. That's crazy.
dude I just looked at my side bar for recommend videos and your right wtf?
I've noticed when I refresh my recommended page I rarely get new videos shown after the refresh, it's like the recommended is locked until I watch the videos and then it'll replace the ones I watch
I don't have any money, You and I are still brothers in Christ! Father God I pray over this channel and over Shad and those that work with him and his family. I call a financial blessing over him and his people. Lord use him to continue to set an example to Christian nerds world wide!!! Amen!!! God bless man and stay encouraged!!!
I've heard many youtube advisors tell some of the content creators about the new algorythm that now HEAVILY pushes shorts and Live videos on everyone suggestions.
I noticed an abrupt change in the UA-cam algorithm. You can test it yourself. Open your main page and count how many videos are from channels that you are subscribed to and how many are not. I used to see around 80% of videos from subscriptions, but now, in the first 50 videos, only 5-10 are from subscribed channels. And there's an abundance of shorts... they're everywhere. I'm having to sift through the subscriptions page to find the channels that I used to watch. Recently, I found a channel that I used to watch almost every day buried in my subscriptions, with more than a month's worth of content that I hadn't seen.
I barely use the main page. I just go straight to my subscriptions every time.
My recommendations trend around the content I have been watching and so channels that don't have that kind of content don't get recommended as often.
My suspicion is this being the election year and UA-cam is pumping all of its promotional energy in to videos which support the side their upper echelon want to see win.
Same here, most are not what I subscribed to, when I check my main page, I find quite a few are unsubcribed
All googles searches have become skewed.
UA-cam: “I have altered the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
I hate how accurate this is. Also yeah UA-cam the company has basically fallen to the dark side and they rule it like Sidious does.
"this platform is getting worse all the time!"
Truth.
This deal is getting worse all the time.
Oops. Another person beat me to it, well shit. Umm. UA-cam! You were supposed to destroy the 9-5, not encourage them! Bring joy to the creative minds, not leave them in darkness! You were my platform UA-cam. I loved you!
I used to love watching this channel and I haven’t been recommended any videos in months, this channel was with me through some rough times and it was a place to escape. I remember the news about your condition and the progress of shadow of the conqueror and then reading reading shadow of the conqueror, it’s frustrating to me that whenever I open UA-cam to watch a video it always pulls up shorts, I just want to sit back and play something even passively while I do other things. I hope everything works out
Frankly, I'm glad I don't see your content pop up any more. The book you've written and the AI-art drama was more than enough to assassinate your character.
This has been happening for a lot of channels. UA-cam has been testing their algorithm again. You just gotta pray it will stabilize sooner or later
What a great company that jeopardizes it's creators as an experiment.
Its an election year in the US, they did this in 2019-2020 as well.
Algorithm BS doesn't mean people who are subscribed to a channel shouldn't get notifications, there's no reason for that.
Yeah, for the past year of so I've seen channels that used to get half a million views for their videos now struggle to get a hundred thousand.
@@HughChardon-hp5ss why is knightswatch doing better than this channel then?
I've mostly stopped watching because the content significantly changed from when I first subscribed
It's interesting that these types of uploads "videos that explain challenges on YT" tend to arrive on my algorithm rather than regular videos
Very sad to hear something like this happening again and again.
Same thing happend a few years ago to all the history tubers I followed.
They are not recommended anymore, because they talk about war, normally get demonatized, had to cut back on lenght and quality of content or outright stopped working on you tube.
I thought you just stopped. I was both amazed and upset watching this and seeing how many videos you've made over the past few months that I had no idea about.
But his prior videos weren't entertaining enough for you to wonder where they were and to check your subscription page?
This isn't the "win" Shad might think it is. It's more proof that lately he hadn't been entertaining enough for viewers like this and others saying similar things to care enough to just check their subscriptions and watch him. That's on his content, not some nefarious YT activity...
@@dimman77 Still done more with his life then you. Still has touched the life of more people then you'll ever even meet.
@@seasonedhunter2463 Nah being famous on YT for riding the coattails of famous shows that have swords in them isn't the flex you think it is. My career is responsible for getting food to people, more people would actually notice and care about my absence than Shad's. You're proof of that, by being so touched by Shad that you couldn't even be bothered to click on Subscriptions to see where he was. Lol
If I may be candid, I almost never get suggestions for this channel. What I DO get is every single Knight's Watch video. For whatever reason, UA-cam only wants me to see Knight's Watch, while this channel gets ignored.
I think its because Knights Watch is a channel involved in the Culture War, so that gets more attention than Shadiversity.
@@tempestvenator9809 Yeah his audience has likely shifted. I imagine a lot of people stopped watching his Shadiversity content when he made his political views open and clear. It drew in a lot of new people but the new people have joined primarily for his culture war content and not his Shadiversity content.
@@theodis8134 Yeah, that's the big problem. Knights Watch fans aren't really history fans. They're fans of complaining about wokeness and other stuff. The funny thing is thar Knights Watch didn't originally start as a political channel, but a gaming one.
Its sad that the stuff that built shadiversity is getting shafted in favor of what pleases analytics.
@@theodis8134 I couldn't care less about his political takes though. I like to watch for swords and bows and sexy women topics. (Where sadly sexy women is somehow higly political).
@@theodis8134 I do not even agree with Shads politics and religous views and such, still watch Shadiversity. People should be able to agree to disagree on topics and still be civil, well... sensible people should.
But then again I am a leftist that thinks the whole woke movement is way beyond equality and such by now, more about censorship, hate and control. In short they are fascists or something close to it.
Also, AI anything is a big no no for me. AI is a Pandoras Box that should never have been opened. Proper AI that is...
I don't rely on UA-cam to notify me. I take the initiative and look things up myself, especially if I subscribe to them like this channel.
I have not been seeing as much of your videos showing up in my feed till this one came up. Granted, I have also been on a binge of different flavor of content for a while, so I cannot discount that as being at lest a factor in that.
I work with a D&D UA-cam channel and we've seen the exact same pattern. This has been an absolutely terrible year thus far. Also, the problem with Shorts is the majority of people who watch Shorts are the younger generation who, quite frankly, don't have the attention span to watch long-form content. So the TikTok crowd is watching Shorts, but they never watch anything more. And UA-cam doesn't pay much for Shorts, pennies if you're lucky. We had a Short that hit 500K views and it paid something like $20.
"don't have attention span to watch long-form content."
it's becasue of god damn tik tok .. i think they seriously set out to ruin the youth of america , and they succeeded. youtube shorts only exist to compete with tik tok in grabbing this brain dead younger generation's tiny attention span. my rottweiler has a longer attention span than most these kids.
After the "pewdiepie" thing, youtube took drastic measures to never let channels grow beyond their control.
100%
What did he do to make UA-cam act like this?
@@IANGEL101I he got too big to take orders and he humiliated their UA-cam Rewind
@@renaissancenovice7202 When?
@@seanroughley4060 it's got to be like 7 or 8 years ago now. Back before the first Adpocalypse when the WSJ made a smear piece against Pewds.
One of my favorite channels, YT needs to fix this crap. You get more views than cable shows
A problem I’m currently having is there are a number of channels I love that are currently putting out fun and awesome content but it’s content I want to sit and actively watch and I’m just too busy to do so. As a result the channels that I can play in the background and just listen to get most of my attention. Shadiversity still pops us in my feed with every new video but I want to properly enjoy the content when I watch it. I love the direction the channel has taken but the problem is on my end. I do have a suggestion though. Since Shad has taken a less active role in the more visual videos due to his health, maybe he can do more older style videos with him in his chair just talking. That way I can engage with the channel more despite my busy schedule.
Hey Shad. One thing to note is that UA-cam has been shifting the Algorithm. As a long term user, something which I don't see you doing is using the Premier system to announce your 'flag-pole' videos. Or announcing smaller projects in the community tab. The channels I've been observing which have been finding success getting picked up have used 'both' of these systems to great effect.
Here's an experiment I'd suggest. Run a premier for the largest video that you have in production for next month. Set the premier up to take place about a week prior, and for your smaller videos release a community post 'directly linking' to said video'. I know it might come across poorly, but it seems to be what others are doing that are favoring other people. They are tools in your tool box, and I hope it helps.
Edit: Small correction. I checked the community tab again, and found that you were actually posting videos. I also went through your video tab, and noted a difference of about 20-40k viewers per video. Might help! Might not! Apologies for the mistake and god-speed.
Also another thing that I noticed. While this might come across as crass or rude. You aren't producing content which is in the midst of a hype cycle at the moment which you had been doing for the period I recall you showing up routinely in the algorithm. For instance, when was the last time there was a 'video game weapon review' or a 'movie weapon review' for something when it was actually relevant in the zeitgeist.
Just going through the past four months of pop-culture videos.
Avatar was a major success for Netflix, but it wasn't a cultural phenomena that can really carry the channel and there was no distinct follow up.
Lord of the Rings didn't have 'anything' happening when you released all of those videos on it back in December.
Pirates of the Caribbean is 'dead' as a franchise.
Star Wars and Marvel are both in a slump
Ya haven't done an anime video in the three month period I observed in the channel update.
And while Baldur's gate 3 is a great video game, it just... It's a year old.
To be completely honest with ya man, while I adore your content. The past three months, where this slump is 'noticeable' has not been your best work. It hasn't been your most relevant work, and it has not 'felt' nearly as inspired as it normally is. I truly adore your work. But I think it needs to be said. I can't earnestly say that I believe it is the algorithm, when reviewing the content itself, it just doesn't seem like it's content your average joe wants to see.
A few suggestions,
- War of the Rorhirim is going to be coming out in December. Slate a big lineup of lord of the rings content for that time frame in December.
- Dune is 'huge' right now due to the release of the second film. Put out a video on the knife fighting of Dune.
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes will be out in May, look into the history of weaponry for the series. There's a ton there to cover.
- Warhammer is in the middle of its Edition release Cycle. Age of Sigmar, Games' Workshop's primary fantasy product line is about to release their fourth edition, while Warhammer 40k just released 10th edition. They've been funneling big bucks into UA-cam to promote the tabletop.
-On top of that, Magic The gathering is trying to reinvigorate its IRL area with a marketing bonanza. You have so many fantasy designs and so much artwork to work of there.
Effectively, what might be happening is the same thing that seems to happen with a good chunk of channels, where you provide a good amount of coverage on relevant material your sub-channels while not producing stuff for the main channel, but still produce big projects for less relevant material. I've seen many people make this mistake. From what I can tell, it's truly not the algorithm.
Edit: Someone pointed out the Dune Video, missed that one, however it still had four times the viewership of other videos from the same time frame. So it doesn't detract from the overall point.
Didn't he do a video recently on knife fighting in Dune?
I looked it up he did do one about a month ago, ua-cam.com/video/LGhJWseSAW4/v-deo.htmlsi=8mJYtPwFmkcBQwhN
I have actually have noticed this as well, some of the peeps i'm subscribed to don't show up in recommended at all but the community posts and premiers do.
One thing I notice my "home" is filled with suggestions of content I'm not subscribed to. The algorithms are not helping me discover great content by creators I subscribe to, but constantly trying to get me to look at other creators
Which is not totaly a bad thing. It helps to discover new things and not staying in your comfort zone. The problem is when the suggestions are too different. It seems the case actually. A little tuning is necessary.
@@hisvin the proper way imo would be for subscription videos to be at the forefront, with recommendations being a secondary option. its a marketing tactic which means that they'd never do it the way i said cuz it would mean less money
If you're struggling to get notifications of your subscriptions, use a redirector, so you always go to your subscriptions page, rather than the main YT page. I haven't seen it in years, and avoiding trash has helped curate the algorithm to really show me stuff I am interested in.
YT wants you to follow "content types" not "content creators". People that follow creators also follow them off platform be that to a competitor like rumble/kick or their own websites.
Yah, UA-cam just wants you to watch their kind of content and not what you actually enjoy.
I love your content, and absolutely agree... it's been wild how few of your videos I've been recommended.
It is literally word-for-word what is happening with my 450k+ subs channel following december last year. Old evergreen content just died, tried a lot experiments with higher quality productions or new formats and it feels like hitting against the wall. UA-cam is killing my channel in the same way as yours - I could copy-paste my videos under your examples that you are showing and even 2018 reach is similar to mine - my channel got pushed back to stats from 2018. Views dropperd 4X, Ad revenue dropped 4X, our products revenue dropped 6X, we are facing layoffs right now and zero good idea what to do. Tough times, hope that you will overcome at least some of the problems.
You and shad should sue
Dude honestly I just miss you doing reviews or comparisons of historical accuracy of castles, armors, and weapons in games or movies. Like I’m surprised you haven’t done this for Dragons dogma 2. I feel like that would’ve been huge.
100% agree
Video game castle reviews were not getting many views which was why I had to stop doing them. The content has changed but for the better: 6:36
I totally agree with this. I loved shows like Fantasy Rearmed and Castle reviews. I dropped off when the channel became this sort of mythbuster channel.
He doesn't know anything about martial arts and is mainly a larper
@@Enrohir Look goofy, you want him to make a castle review that only a small fraction of the viewers want for the video to get 500 views? I would understand your statement if he was going viral, but if he doesn't make videos for the views at this moment his channel will die completely.
You're not the only YT creator experiencing this. YT is determined to throttle down on small creators so that they can shift to larger creators and concentrate on their direct streaming business. Sadly, I don't see that changing.
This is what I have been noticing as well. Although new channels are still able to grow, I feel like YT is slow walking everyone into a massive "reboot" and funneling people towards their preferred creators, aka the only creators that will be allowed after the reboot. After the reboot, creators will be like any TV/radio/"celebrity" type. They'll be independent talent contractors for YT and it will become like every other entertainment network. We're probably no more than 5-9 years away, sometime in the next two election cycles for sure.
Of course it wont change. YT is corrupt and awful.
Shad is always crying about everything though. Social Conservatives like him are the biggest crybabies ever. Everything is boohoohoo waaaa waaaa baby upset so much waaaaa. Everyone else just deals with it without crying or begging for money. Shad though QQQQ forever about everything. Boohoo YT dislikes non-corporate creators. Boohoo Disney is catering towards the group I hate. Boohoo even christians dislike my version of christianity. Boohoo ppl are so mean to me. Boohoo masculinity is fading QQQQQ mommy help i cant be a man anymore mommy Boohoo
Not true. For a start, Shadiversity is not a ‘small creator’: it’s a major 1.7million subscriber channel.
The algorithm tweaks seem to have been to prioritise recommending content from smaller / newer channels over longer term creators. (Obviously for subscribers, you can still just go to the subscriber tab to view everything in your feed - but the change does impact non-subscriber views).
So there's no hope for lil guys like me?
@@Zveebohe's a small creator to the big shots come on
I suspect UA-cam changed their algorithm. With increasing frequency I find that if I watch one video on any topic my feed becomes overwhelmed with other videos from that channel, including videos I've already seen completely wiping out all other channels and topics.
Hard to believe that all the stats there that this channel would be dying, so many subscribers so many views so many comments, so many likes❤
Because the stats don't show the whole picture. He's ignoring a very large part of how recommendation algorithms work. They show you a post after a post. Think of FB, Insta, Tiktock, anything. "What content should I show this user" is vastly influenced by "what content was this user watching" and "what content kept people of similar interest on the platform". You look at fluffy bunnies, you get fed other fluffy bunnies videos other people watched. It's that simple.
Try it, watch dog show clips, or cooking clips and see what happens.
Anything that deals with weapons (knives and guns) gets shadowbanned.
This is well known. Ask any guntuber.
Same is happening recently on Instagram, who seem to have a massive crackdown on knife makers, collector pages and manufacturer pages. It's extremely annoying. Shadow bans and active suppression by removing the channels from any public display option and limiting them to subscribers only.
It's not only weapons channels, it's also history channels. I know Armchair Historian, Alternate History Hub, and other history channels had been having problems with UA-cam for a couple of years now. Whether intention or not, UA-cam is enforcing censorship of topics it doesn't like, and is actively working to create a false historical narrative by demonetizing (or outright deleting) videos that mention certain topics - like genocides that happen under certain communist regimes. Talk about the Holocaust? Iffy. Talk about Stalin's 7-year Plans and pogroms, or Mao's Great Leap Forward? Demonetized or deleted.
Not sure about that, although I would say they have been reduced. Demolition Ranch is an example. There are tons of gun channels that get lots of views.
@@huwhitecavebeast1972I’ve been seeing way fewer DR videos than normal, and I’ve watched his videos since at least 2018
As a loooong time viewer who remembers Shad just ranting in his office by himself all day, this is heartbreaking q.q
Sadly I've never had the ability, nor do I have it now, to directly financially support yall, as I am barely making ends meet and am barely saving anything monthly for my future and potential future family. I wish you all the best and hope Shadiversity will end up surviving.
Cool. Don't give your money to fat, sweaty, misogynists.
Do you also enjoy his super right wing stuff on his other channel? That channel is why I unsubbed from this one and I hope he goes bankrupt.
A good idea is to be on more platforms than just UA-cam
I feel the quality has dropped. I really liked the fantasy re armed stuff. Shorter to the point and so on.
This news is brutal, your channel was what first got me into swords and D&D,
and because of school and whatnot I hadn't even noticed the lack of notifications.
I really wish I could do something to help out, but I'm flat broke right now.
We can't lose another one of the greats, I'm praying for you man.
I'll be honest with you Shad, the focus of the channel has transformed over the years. It went from videos that provide real historical knowledge about medieval weaponry and warfare... To a group of seemingly drunken buddies that fuck around with dangerous objects for fun. I know that there is still great value to be found in the new videos and that a lot of money and effort goes into them, but the vibe just isn't the same anymore.
I'll second this. I stay subscribed because of videos like the recent castle ones, and I see every video because I look primarily at the Subscribed tab, but I just don't want to watch weapon testing. I subscribed for information on history and for writing advice, not for cutting videos or people making unusual weapons out of weird materials.
Amen
I know the changes don't appeal to everyone, but they appeal to hundreds of thousands of viewers as proven by the many, many successful videos we've put out in the new format. Please don't extend your dislike to the new format too broadly and think your reaction explains this sudden suppression that started in January, because we've been making very successful videos in this new format for much, much longer than this sudden death spiral the channel is in, as I explain here: 6:36
@@shadiversity I admit that I made my post before I had finished watching the whole video, just gave my personal first impression. The only way to explain such a massive drop in views and recommendations is with a more or less conscious sabotage by UA-cam and their algorithm. I still love the vast majority of your new content and will continue to support everyone at Shadiversity and pray for the channel to do well again, you absolutely deserve it!
@@m.c.murdoch6insert the Simpsons "no it's the kids who are out of touch" meme
I absolutely get your frustration. And you provide quality content too with high production values.
Yes, the youtube algorithm has problems. However what "killed" the channel (at least for me) is bringing politics into a non-political channel. If I wanted to hear about how bad "wokeism" is or that I need Jesus in my life, I would watch Matt Walsh (ehw) and honestly self-lobotomizing myself with a toothpick sounds more entertaining than watching Matt Walsh.
This isn't the political channel. You're thinking of the KNIGHTS WATCH channel.
"This isn't the political channel"? And they say satire is being killed by the woke mob.
Is that true? Has this channel carried any political and/or religious content? If so, then I can see that as a turn-off to those who want to escape politics and religion.
@@RavenclawFtW3295 Even so. most people myself included refuse to support this dude because of his ass backwards views.
I've been reading through the comments and the community feedback has left me to believe that, while Google and the algorithm may certainly have had an impact, the CONTENT being procuded has been a factor as well that can't be dismissed. Not with the amount of comments experessing their discontent.
So many individuals have mentionned a real disinterest in most of the content that's been presented. A sizeable chunk of these individuals even admitting having outright unsubscribed from the channel altogether because of it.
There's a serious demand for a return to form. A return to what Shadiversity, once known as "I am Shad", really was all about. It really seems to me like a focus on bashing things open with weapons alongside the lads isn't clicking with many of the Old Guard of the subscriber base.
Best of luck, Shad. Praying this gets resolved in some way.
Thanks for the feedback. I know the changes don't appeal to everyone, but they appeal to hundreds of thousands of viewers as proven by the many, many successful videos we've put out in the new format. A lot of people are claiming the older content was better but apart from the viral big ones, most of it was not getting viewed as much as the content we've been making in the last two years. They're extending their dislike to the new format too broadly and think their reaction explains this sudden suppression that started in January, because we've been making very successful videos in this new format for much, much longer than this sudden death spiral the channel is in, as I explain here: 6:36
@@shadiversity Thank you for reading my feedback and replying, Shad.
You absolutely have made several bangers! The sudden death spiral which started in January could very well be explained by the hand of Google, but the channel seems to have been on the decline even before then as shown in the charts which makes this 5 year all time low particularly devastating I have no doubt.
Maybe the answer is somewhere in between?
What brought me to my conclusion is the fact I've never quite seen so many comments expressing their discontent with the new form of content on these sorts of Update Videos in the past. The number of comments absolutely dumbfounded me and I can't tell if it's because these comments were somehow pushed out of the view by UA-cam's doing in the comment section of previous updates or if this sentiment is genuinely growing.
Perhaps a community poll, even if not a 100% bulletproof way to gauge the market value, could be of some help?
Edit: Google has most likely had a hand in this for quite some time, even beyond January and maybe even as far back as several years. There's no way that can be dimissed.
I too have been reading through the comments, and I applaud you on your keen observation and eloquently presented statement. There are indeed a lot of viewers who are taking this opportunity to explain what has put them off about the channel. The response you got has been copy pasted each time. That or a link to 6:36 where he briefly addresses it in the video.
I happen to be in agreement with many of them. The type of content I subscribed to the channel for is not being made anymore. Things like fight scene autopsies where he breaks down the fight between Achilles and Hector in Troy, or goofy mall ninja weapon compilations. It's all as you say bashing things with weapons and as someone who doesn't have a super keen interest in weapons I can only watch so much.
Some of the content, like movie reviews, has moved over to Knight's Watch, but even that has undergone changes. There was a time where reviews were carried out scene by scene with typed or handwritten notes. They were structured cathartic rants, as it says in the intro. The very first Shadiversity video I saw, and this may ring true for many, was the Rise of Skywalker review. Just him sitting in his high back wooden chair laying into the movie for hours, and it was exactly what I needed to see at the time. Now they're all done off the cuff until no one feels like talking anymore it seems.
Now there are 3 caveats to my sentiments. One, I don't pretend to know a thing about how to run a successful UA-cam business. Two, Shad has health issues that influence the volume and type of content he's able to make, which he's made public on more than one occasion. And three, I know Shad is very intelligent and has tried everything to reverse course with his business. He's tried live streaming. He's tried shorts. He's tried breathing new life into his novel by adapting it into a graphic novel. He's even tried becoming a regular host on Friday Night Tights in hopes that the exposure would bring more eyeballs to his channels.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but I do know that you have to control what you can control. I've supported in every way I can, despite the content becoming less diverse and interesting to me at times, because I like Shad and the people he has around him and I want to see them thrive. I'm a member on both of the main channels. I bought his novel and graphic novel both, leather bound. I open and leave a thumbs up on every single video. But I do feel he should take in some of this feedback, especially from his OG viewers, and see if there isn't some way to provide a wider variety of content that is still on brand for Shadiversity. It's all well and good saying that the quality of content is better than it's ever been, but it's primarily just from a production standpoint. No different from Lucasfilm claiming that the Star Wars content presented in Rise of Skywalker is the best it's ever been because of the cutting edge CGI. In terms of engagement however, well the comments speak for themselves. But I do earnestly hope he can turn things around.
If anything, it's the other way around. The changes to the channel do not correlate with the sudden drop, while the algorithm does. It seems far more likely you're overestimating the impact of something that concerns you personally than that this is what is causing the issue.
@@Llortnerof Both things can be true at the same time. There could've been changes in content or too many divisive videos that drove some people away. The algorithm picks up on that and concludes that there is a drop in interest, then proceeds to amplify the problem by not recommending it as much.
I originally found you back in 2014-15 through your Fantasy Rearmed videos. Now that I work as a custodian I tend to watch long form content that I can listen to with a earphone in my ear. My favorite videos from your channel are the ones I can listen to you talk about something and not have to look at the screen. If you made an hour video just talking about swords, castles or Fantasy I would definitely watch those.
Yeah, while a few videos where they hit dummies with weapons can be fun - for you and me the longform content works at work. That's why I do enjoy the Knights Watch content he does. It works better for me.
@@Pangora2 I agree, he should focus on that channel more and talk more about his interests in fantasy and history on his shadiversity channel instead of preforming skits with weapons. But that's just what works with me. I don't really watch yt anymore, I listen to it.
First time I've seen a video from this channel recommended in about 3 months myself.
Mate, i can see how much this is affecting you and it’s bang out of order. I’ve been a subscriber for a couple of years and until yesterday when your “Correcting misconceptions about castles” video popped up in my feed i hadn’t realised that i wasn’t getting any recommendations for you in my feed for a few weeks, maybe a couple of months.